BM = Bitch Mode
Today BM stands for 'Bitch Mode". Why oh why are all these BM's alike? My BF's ex called him on Sunday morning at 9:30..we were just getting up. He didn't answer and waited to see if she left a message - she didn't. His daughter almost 20 was driving up north with her BF, and he was afraid something might have happened, car problems, etc. So he called his ex back about 10:30. She tore into him about not answering her call when she called. There was no emergency...she just wanted to bitch about how he doesn't take enough interest in the girls, not enough time, not enough vacations, not enough money spend on them, etc. She gets this way every couple of months. Of course, he listens for half an hour, I went out in the backyard and read a magazine..I couldn't stand to listen to it. She said that the 'girls' think he would do anything for me, and does things for me all the time. I don't think the 'girls' ever said such a thing...I'm sure that's BM in Bitch Mode! She blames him for not being more involved, he just reminds her that she was the one cheated and left and he can't get any more involved under the circumstances of not living with the girls.
I think there might have been 2 things that set this all off this time. 1.It was his weekend with his daughter (14), but she wanted to stay at her moms since she had a dance on Sat night and then a sleepover at moms house. He said of course, no problem. He and I picked up the girls on Sat night at school after dance and took them to BM's. Think it made her mad I was with him. Nothing new to her or them, of course I was with him, I'm always with him when the girls aren't. 2. She didn't want the oldest daughter to go on the trip with her BF (first time she's done this). And she wanted my BF to tell his daughter she couldn't go. He didn't think it was his call, she lives with her mom and her mom pays for the car and enables her to the point she doesn't have to work just goes to school. AND she's almost 20 years old.
This woman has moved on...moved in with her BF right after split up over 5 years ago. But she can't let BF move on. When she sees me she's so sweet..it is sickening! I'm so glad your with BF, etc. etc. She just doesn't think he should have a life other than his GIRLS..she wants nothing to interfere on the girls time, she wants him to nothing that make take money away from them or extras. She has said before that he takes me everywhere but never the girls. he has taken them on trips, and when we go anywhere, we split the costs.
Sorry...I am just so angry that he lets it all get to him. She guilt trips like no one can. He just doesn't ever see it and it is written on the wall. It only took him 1 day for him to decide to take his 14 year old somewhere over Easter break (because that's another thing she said...you never take her anywehre..you always take Hanny). We haven't been anywhere in almost a year. He took his daughter on a trip last Easter to his sisters in a lovely area, she didn't want to go, and was not too enthused.
And if you've read any of my blogs, I recently complained because he doesn't include me in his life with them. I feel like I fill in the cracks, he has never not seen them because of me, nothing he has ever spent on me has taken a dime away from them. This woman just can't stand the thought that he has someone else in his life, even though she seems so happy he does. I don't understand it!
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Trying to understand it all...
I read somewhere that when a the father leaves a family, whether the mother wanted him to leave or not, the mother still expects and demands him to be a resource for their children. And this sounds right and good to me. But when the father gets involved with a new woman, the BM goes nuts because she sees less resources for her own children.
I also read somewhere that women are biologically more passive than men EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO PROTECTING THEIR CHILDREN. For their children they will fight, fight, fight! I don't know if this is helpful but sometimes understanding why someone does what they do can make it easier to bear.
Now a sane, reasonable BM would see that the father is still giving of his time and resources to the children and also moving on with his life by being with a new partner. He has a right to do that.
BM screamed at DH about not caring about SD30 enough! OMG! Sorry, Hanny, but BM's "Bitch Mode" may NEVER end. Co-parenting adult children is ridiculous! A father's relationship with his ADULT children are between DH and the adult children and BM needs to BACK-OFF and GET A LIFE!
I'm sorry your BF even listens to all her criticism of him. Why get divorced if you're going to continue to fight? And what's with BM's split personality -- that I don't get. My DH's ex has been really nice sometimes but mostly nasty. What's up with that?
A couple of thoughts...
I don't quite buy the resources for children thing. I think it's resources for THEM that they are worried about. Most of the cases on here, the DH's are paying required or more CS. I think it's ego and an inability to realize what divorce means. They want these men to still be handymen, pocketbooks, shoulders to cry on, everything but a husband.
And, re the split personality, the nasty one is real. The other one is fake. It's that simple. I think it's lack of social skills. Our BM has done the same thing, almost inappropriate niceness (she called me honey once) and then the claws come out later. I don't know about you, if I like someone I like them not flip flop. And if I don't like someone I am polite all the time at least.
I commend you
on the new interpretation of BM!! Oh and, of course, she can go suck eggs!!!! Ridiculous.
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Vladimir Lenin
Just for the record...he has
Just for the record...he has never missed a child support payment and never been late. Sometimes she even calls and cries she's broke, even though she pays no rent to her BF and she works and has a pretty good job, he will even pay her early if he has it. And he pays 50% of all extras, perscriptions, tutoring, party clothes, everything, and he's never asked first if he agrees to the extras. He says he's just trying to keep things going until his youngest is 18, he's so afraid that BM will influence the 14 year old not to come for visitations, which is what she did with the 20 year old when she was 16! She would give the 16 year old her car on Saturday and Sunday (while BM was at work), and of course, she decided to stay at mom's and drive mom's car and have no supervision instead of come to dad's house. And as far as the personality changes, I wouldn't be surprised if she weren't bi polar. the 20 year old text her dad the other day and said, you know mom's drama, if things aren't going her way, it total drama! And that true!